Old photograph of the Priory Of St Moak on Island called St Serf's Isle in Loch Leven by Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland. The priory dedicated to St. Serf or Servanus; and at Portmoak was the site of its Church, and the landing place of its Monks. The first, or an early Superior of the priory, or of a Culdee establishment which preceded it, is said to have borne the name of Moak or St. Moak; and from the landing place, and afterwards the Kirkton and the parish, are supposed to have been called Portmoak. Some ruins of the priory still exist. The etablishment is said to have been found by a Pictish King and given it to the Culdees; and it afterwards became a dependency of the Agustinian Abbey of St. Andrews, Fife.
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